This raises an interesting point. Perhaps now would be a good time
to start compiling a wishlist for enhancements to OpenAFS. What
would be the best way to organize it? On a web site perhaps?
Regarding the DNS idea I know this has been around for a long time
(the record type was defined ages ago) but I thought one of the
reasons it didn't happen was due to a security issue. I think it
had to do with concern over somebody hijacking your DNS to point your
clients to rogue servers, but I'm probably only partially remembering
it at this point. Anybody remember the whole story?
A wishlist item from me is to be able to do backups of AFS through
Amanda (see www.amanda.org ). It's probably kludgeable as things
stand now, but with some effort on both Amanda and AFS it could be
made much smoother. This is something I've put a fair amount of
thought into but so far no actual effort. I'm interested in hearing
from anyone who'd be interested in collaborating on such an effort.
-Mitch
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Harald Barth wrote:
> > -implicit system:administrators rl system:backup rl ...
>
> This is of course the right thing. This is one of the bunch of
> small enhancements to Transarc AFS that are of high value and
> low coding effort that should have been happening a long time
> ago. Hopefully this will now happen with OpenAFS. Another
> one (I know I said this before) is AFSDB in DNS instead of
> CellServDB files.
>
> Harald.
>
